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Return of Krajina Serbs and respect for their human rights must be secured

Belgrade, Aug 4, 2005 - Serbian
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said in a statement that Serbia and the
Serbian people will observe this day, August 4, with the memory of thousands
of innocent Krajina Serbs from Croatia who were killed and the several
hundreds of thousands who were expelled from their homes.

"One entire people, the Serbs from
Krajina, were rooted out in just a few days, running from the cruel threat
of extinction, from the land which had been their home for centuries. The
line of refugees from Knin to Belgrade was a sight of a heinous crime that
is unmatched and represents the greatest ethnic cleansing after the Second
World War.

"Not even after ten years has the
justice been done or the entire truth admitted, and the consequences of
this tragedy will never be fully removed.

"Two hundred and fifty thousand
refugees and more than 2000 people killed and missing is a crime that will
be recorded not only in the history of Croatian Serbs and the Serbian people
as a whole, but in the history of the worst inhumanity as well.

"Today we have a very important
task, to enable these refugees to return to their homes and for their human
rights to be given back to them, because that is the only road that leads
to true peace, justice, reconciliation and European future", it is
said in the statement of the Serbian Prime Minister.